Penguin Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>The bestselling author of <i>The Plantagenets </i>and <i>Magna Carta</i> and presenter of Netflixs <i>Secrets of Great British Castles</i> offers a vivid account of the events that inspired <i>Game of Thrones </i>and<i> Shakespeares Henry IV and Richard III</i></b><br><br><b>Discover the real history behind <i>The Hollow Crown:?The Wars of the Roses</i></b><b>?the?PBS Great Performance series of Shakespeare's plays coming December 2016 staring Judi Dench Benedict Cumberbatch Sofie Okenedo and Hugh Bonneville.??<br><br>Also look for Dan Jones'?<i>The Templars</i>?in September 2017!?</b><br><br> The crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. In this riveting follow-up to?<i>The Plantagenets</i> celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors.<br><br> Some of the greatest heroes and villains of history were thrown together in these turbulent times from Joan of Arc and Henry V?? whose victory at Agincourt marked the high po